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I can’t wait for spring to finally get here.  It feels like winter has been for 5 seasons instead of just one and now that it’s warming up, I’m putting together my spring wardrobe and cleaning out all of the old stuff that’s clogging up my closet.  I’ve picked up three pieces that I’m especially proud of.  First, I got a harem pants jumpsuit and I love it.  I’ve wanted a pair of harem pants for a while and these are just perfect.  Since it’s a jumpsuit I don’t have to buy a top to go with it and that makes life a lot easier.

The jumpsuit kinda looks like this but it’s taupe.  For all of my Chicagonistas, I got it at Kham’ryn B. Shoes on the southside.  It’s a very cute boutique that offers shoes, accessories and clothes.  There’s even a men’s side too.   I go way back with the owners and they’re a pair of fab and fashionable sisters.  Check them out!

I also got a tan motorcycle style jacket that I can’t wait to wear with a wife beater, skinny jeans and statement jewelry.

I got a black leather motorcycle jacket too but I got this from The Leather Company.

Have you done some shopping for spring yet and if so, what did you get?

Hey Peeps!

I have totally missed talking to all of you multiple times a day.  I was seriously going through blog withdrawals.  So, what have I been up to, you ask?  I have been doing all types of things! First and foremost, my baby is now a year old!  I feel like I just had her yesterday and time is totally flying.  I took a hair braiding class and learned how to do french braids, cornrows and extension styles.  I also started doing nail art and learned all types of tricks and techniques.  So, I have been productive with my time and now that I’m back in school, I have been sooooo busy!  But I missed the blog so much that I just couldn’t let it go.  I thought about getting rid of the site but I just couldn’t do it and I’m glad I didn’t.  So now that I’m back….let’s get crackin!

I know I have been neglecting the site but it’s all for a good cause.  As much as I would like to put life on pause and dedicate all my time to the maintenance of this site, I can’t, right at this moment.  I am embarking on a bunch of new adventures and just living life in general and being tethered to my laptop just ain’t working for me right now.  I’m going to align some things then I’ll be right back at it.  It’ll be like I never left!  I  miss talking to all of you folks!!!

Muchos Besos!

See y’all next week!

Amber Rose will have a spread in the December issue of the Vibe magazine relaunch.  The spread is supposed to be more tasteful than the usual Amber Rose flicks.

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Super producer, Bryan Michael Cox, celebrated his birthday in Atlanta at the W Lounge.  His Oceans 7 boys came out to help him celebrate along with some other famous peeps.

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Monica “Danger” Leon, a contestant that was vying for the love of Ray J on the first season of his showwas placed on a 48 hr psychiatric hold after endangering herself and her newborn daughter.  She is said to be suffering from postpartum depression and things really hit the fan after a fight with her baby’s father.  Gabriel Cannon, Nick Cannon’s brother, came to pick up the baby for Thanksgiving but did not invite Monica to the family dinner causing her to become distraught.  She shaved her head and started tweeting about commiting suicide.  She has also tweeted about being pregnant again.  I hope she gets the help that she needs.

In this video, Chris Brown rates some women in entertainment on Funk Master Flex’s radio show.  In the beginning of the video, Flex asks him to rate Cassie.  Chris gives her 10 at first then recants and gives her a 9.  He also says, “Diddy knows he got a bad lil shorty.”  WOW! Just put ‘em on blast Chris!  He also rates Kim Kardashian (7), Amber Rose ( 8 or 9), Keri Hilson (8 or 9),Trina ( 7 or 8), Beyonce (9), Amerie (6), and more.  Poor Chris!  As a convicted woman beater, I’m not sure that rating women is what he should be doing.  He really needs a better PR team.  Whatever happened to getting your interview questions prior to the interview?

January 9, 2010 marks the day that the book, Sugar, by Bernice L. McFadden celebrates its 10th anniversary.  The author is commemorating the anniversary by campaining to sell 10,ooo copies of the masterpiece by January 9.  Don’t get it twisted, she’s not doing this to line her pockets.  This push is designed to serve as a wake-up call to publishers who have marginalized the African-American experience into categories of gangs, violence and drug sales.  Sales of this book will help to convince publishers that there’s more than one type audience for African-American literature and that art should be appreciated for what it is.  Visit the author’s blog for more information on Sugar’s 10th anniversary [Author's blog].

Actress Kimberly Elise supports the campaign

From Amazon.com:

Bernice L. McFadden’s first novel begins with the brief, poetic description of a crime so startling that the reader is helplessly drawn in, as if a bright red door stood ajar on a bleak and forbidding house. Pearl Taylor’s daughter, Jude, has been found murdered and mutilated near a field at the edge of town. “The murder had white man written all over it,” writes McFadden. “But no one would say it above a whisper. It was 1940. It was Bigelow, Arkansas. It was a black child. Need any more be said?” In the years that follow, Pearl catches sight of Jude in so many strangers that when Sugar Lacey comes to town and sets up her unwholesome “business” in the house next door, she doesn’t know whether to believe what she sees in Sugar’s face: a striking similarity to Jude, dead 15 years. In her sedate but supple prose–rising at times to a light, unforced lyricism in the description of landscape or character–the author perfectly renders the closed and protective society of a small Southern town, the superstitions, gossip, and prying. Although the men of Bigelow are happy enough to have Sugar around, the women do their best to drive her off. Only Pearl is drawn to Sugar, managing to look beyond the rumors surrounding her new neighbor, whose dismal life, she tells Pearl, “had no crossroads.” Eventually Pearl shows Sugar the ballerina-topped jewelry box in which she keeps snapshots of her dead daughter.

Sugar lifted the lid and saw herself staring back at her. She jerked as if struck. Her hands were shaking as she lifted the first of many pictures from the box. Jude rolling in the grass, Jude swimming in the lake, Jude sleeping, Jude laughing. Sugar’s head was swimming. If someone had brought these pictures to her and said, ‘Here you are in the life you can’t recall,’ she would have believed every word of it and ignored the slight differences that remained between Jude and herself. Jude’s smaller nose and thinner lips, her rounder eyes and fuller brow. But the smile was the same; sure and solid. Sugar knew that smile, it was her own.

Slowly, the secret connections between Jude and Sugar unfold against a backdrop of suspense and the return of violence. This is an ambitious and feeling debut from a promising writer.

The latest celebrities to be subjectled to fanatical stalkers are Rachel True (The Craft, Half-n-Half) and Ashanti.  Rachel True’s stalker, Elenora Redmon, showed up at her home with a large sex toy and claimed that Rachel called her there “psychically.”  She also has said that she would like to “f**k Rachel with a cobra.” Rachel was granted a temporary restraining order against Redmon and the stalker is currently in jail on $150,000 bail because of the sex toy incident.

Ashanti’s stalker was not only obsessed with her but also with her sister and mom.  An Indiana man named, Devar Hurd, was arrested for sending over 30 explicit text messages to Ashanti’s mother about how he pleasures himself while thinking about the three women. 

The barrage of filth allegedly began in May, when Hurd is charged with first “sexting” Ashanti’s mother, Tina Douglas, of Glen Cove LI.

“Hey Tina baby, how u doing sexy,” Hurd, 31, text messaged Tina Douglas’ cell phone.

“Tell Shani I’m coming straight home from work to put in sum overtime. U know how I do, LOL.”

The next day, he texted over to the mom a picture of his exposed genitals, and this message: “Here’s a pic I had laying around for the ladies in sum of my birthday suit lol.”

It went quickly downhill from there, according to prosecutors, who have offered Hurd a one-year sentence in exchange for a guilty plea.

In just his third text — and between references to the superstar’s upcoming appearances, and mentions of such Ashanti hits as “Girlfriend” and “So Over You” — Hurd allegedly zips the mom a picture of a car belonging to her 29-year-old singer-actress daughter.

“Shani baby I saw U parked yesterday when I showed up to the Wiz,” he allegedly says in that text, from June, going on to graphically describe masturbating to a video of one of the star’s concert performances.

Cops say he ended that text by typing — perhaps with just one thumb — “Oh ashanti ashanti ashanti, yes baby woooo lol.”

The texts reference the star’s appearances and rehearsals, and also describe fantasies about her sister, Kenashia Douglas, and about group sex with the star and her mother and sister.

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